Bug#889056: [update] Re: Bug#889056: replace apache-mode.el with elpa package
Hi!
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 03:31:00PM +0500, Lev Lamberov wrote:
> Пн 23 июл 2018 @ 16:52 Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>:
>
> > Found what I had in mind, in the REJECT-FAQ:
> >
> > "If the upstream tarball does not include a copy of the license,
> > debian/copyright must document when and how the license information was
> > obtained (i.e. include "Downloaded by John Doe on 2008-12-24 from
> > http://example.net/license"; or reproduce email correspondence including
> > some header) in addition to reproducing the license itself. In the past
> > there were uploads where one couldn't find the license statement in the
> > tarball or on the website from upstream, which is bad."
>
> Thank you, Sean!
Yes, thank you :-)
> Still I find it ambiguous. It worth to note that this particular point
> was revised last time in Dec 2008. Then, in the first sentence it
> mentions "a copy of the license", but the second sentece talks about a
> "license statement". In emacs-php's apache-mode we have only the second.
>
> Nevertheless,the most interesting thing about emacs-php's apache-mode is
> that its license statement says:
>
> > You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
> > with your copy of Emacs; see the file COPYING.
I agree that's interesting, because apache-mode is GPL-2+ and Emacs is
distributing a copy of GPL-3+. Thankfully Usami Kenta resolved the
issue. It's ready to sponsor from here:
git@salsa.debian.org:emacsen-team/apache-mode-el.git
Cheers,
Nicholas
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